SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap asian vase PA--an envelop filled with folded

PA--an envelop filled with folded up bits of paper

The back is flat stone

in great shape

I've photographed just one piece of the roof on its platform with a block behind to keep it pitched in first photo

in a wide variety of ways

SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap asian vase PA--an envelop filled with foldedI'm very tempted to keep this one for myself because I really love the sense of presence and appearance of this woman (face to hair to collar to dress to belt), and also, especially, because I love the old string wrap holding the layers of mat and glass and photo together having lost the foil wrap "preserver" that would once have done so, and the case it was surely once housed in too. The string repair is old, with corrosion corresponding to its